Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-08

around with her TO St. Mary's church and
be married by Father Higgins. / said
tuat couldn't be without uispensatIon.
| GOT her 10 put of marrying me for day.
On Monday | went to Hartford to see the
Rev. Dr.. Shahan, Bishop McMahon's sec
retarv, about getting 2 dIspensation. He
sent me back to get letter from Father
higgins. i met Miss Howe on Tuesday
ana told her what luck I'd bad. She
said: There's a minister in this city who
Will marry us. He has married friends
OF mine who were in the same fix we are
so THEY WERE MARRIED.
owe went around to the Rev. Selden
Gilberps house. | forgot TO get license
and went away TO hunt up the Registrar.
| couldn't find him at the office and came
back without "A license. When We went
away MISS Howe told me that one of Mr..
GilberU's family tried TO talk her out of
the marriage. Il told them l was old
enough to know what | was doing,' Sue
said. Next day we got the license. In
the afternoon we went to the Rev. Mr.
Gilberps house and be married US.
Thence we went to the City Hotel and re-
manned two or three hours. l registered
our names Edward Smith and wife,
II escorted my wife TO her parents
house, and took my singing lesson as
usual that evening. She was very happy.
In TACT, the other pupils noticed 1T and
guyed me about 1t afterward. They said
they thought something was up. About
two weeks after the marriage Fanny
made up her mind 10 break the news
gently to her family. In the meantime /
had been calling at the mouse as usual.
After she had broken the news gently she
told me the Whole family had Mysteries,
and that / was forbidden the house. Soon
aiterward l got note from her inviting
me to cal. She said her parents had de-
cidcd to give me last interview with
her. / called. W e went into the sitting
room together about fifteen minutes,
when all the family except Charles
rushed in. Fanny jumped up and said
that ii they didn't leave the room she'd
leave home with me that night. They
backed cut, but HING around the key
holes. soon they broke in on US again.
Mr.. and Mrs. Howe and Clara all started
to fire me out. Fanny stood up and SAID:
Don't dare lay hand on my husband"
RETICENT ABOUT ONE LITTLE INCIDENT.
Mr.. Sheehan coyly refraned from par
ticulars as to his election, but it 10
reasonably certain that he was transport
ed TO the street with vgOr, neatnesS and
dispatch. Even after all these tribulatiOns
his heart was true to Fanny, and he met
her many times outside OF her home.
Six weeks ago her parents prevented her
from meeting him any more. She had
fed his honest flame with letters. and he
still thOught her true to him. About this
time, though, wicked stories deriding
Mr.. Sheehan began to appear in some
of the local papers, and Fanny wrote no
more letters. Then the bridegroom,
never very eager, began to cool rapidly.
a few days ago he was served with a
notice requiring him to appeari in the Su-
periOr Court and answer Frances q.
HOwe's petition to have the marriage set
aside. The complaint recites that the
ceremony was performed while she was
Gin morbid and unbalanced mental con-
ton, owing in part TO the effects of
medicines on an overstrained and excited
nervous system, and was mentally inca
pable of approaching the character or
effect OF hNe transaction" Furthermore,
she alleges that she never had any atfec-
ton for Sheehan and that Immediately
after the ceremony she told him so, and
also that he was personally repugnant to
her. Also. that she "returned home from
the officiating clergyman's house and
never permitted Sheehan to exercise any
marital rights or control" She prays to
have the marriage ceremony declared
null and void.
1t is hard to see how sbe can prove
that she went straight home from the
minister's house, This entry was found
in the register of the City Hotel: Jan.
10, Il. Smith-Wife, room 49,"
Lawyer George a. Tyler, for Sheehan,
says that his client will do oil in his
power to help his wife to get a separa-
ton, but will not admit that she was not
in full possession OF her faculties when
the wedding took place.
The HOwes, including Mrs. Sheehan,
auctioned oil their furniture week ago
and moved, it is said, to Cleveland, q.